BeenJammin
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Engineering |
| Occupation | Turning empty paper into stuff no one reads. |
| Location | A town, in the southeast part of the, United States |
| Introduction | Somebody once told me I was "morbidly disarming," and I think that's one of the best descriptions of me. I was born into a military family in Syracuse, NY, in 1960. I grew up in a suitcase travelling hither and yon and have – to date – set foot in 49 U.S. states, three Canadian provinces and most of the countries in Western Europe. After serving time as an illustrator in the US Air Force, I decided to take the scenic route through higher education. Twelve years later I fled Academia with a BA in Totally Useless Dead Languages, an MA in How to Write Your Way into a Great Paying Job Doing Virtually Nothing, and a crippling student loan debt! During my lifetime, I have worked as a carpenter, an illustrator, a janitor, a scholar, a soldier, a college teacher, and a writer. Over the past two decades, I’ve tapped out newspaper articles, movie reviews for a now-defunct e-zine, and several hundred utterly boring technical manuals that I’m sure get used mainly as doorstops and step stools. A devout Mormon, I live in the South with my wife, grandson, my aged in-laws, and a really grouchy cat. |
| Interests | Good food, good books, good music, good movies, good friends, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, Dracula (with Bela), Chocolat, Hell Boy, Enchanted April, Frankenstein (with Boris), The Fifth Element, Ghost World, The Quiet Man, A Soldier's Story, Lost Horizon, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Touch of Evil, the Univited (with Ray Milland), Solaris (the Russian one), Inception, War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide, Lord of the Rings, Cannery Row, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Random Harvest, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Pride and Prejudice, Enchanted Cottage, Everything is Illuminated |
| Favorite music | Tom Waits, Mark Knopfler, Casandra Wilson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Michael McDermott, Isaac Hayes, Sarah Vaughn, Miles Davis, Emmy-Lou Harris, Joni Mitchel, Charles Mingus, Eric Bibb, BB King, Jeffery Foucault |
| Favorite books | The Book of Mormon, The Martian Chronicles, Perdido Street Station, The Big Sleep, Moth, A Few Last Words, Speaker For the Dead, The Cryptonomicon, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Good Omens, Oedipus Rex, The Odyssey, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Invisible Man, Death Comes for the Archbishop, In the Woods, The Power and the Glory, Cannery Row, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Great Gatsby, The House Without a Key, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Maisie Dobbs, The Peculiar Crimes Unit, Brave New World, The Dry Salvages, At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, The Dunwich Horror and Others, Dracula, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Dancing at the Harvest Moon |
Please describe how you could take the peel off an apple all in one go:
With an ax! A man-killing ax!